Patents by Inventor Christian Kohler
Christian Kohler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10053139Abstract: An electromechanical servo steering system may include an electric servomotor that drives a worm shaft that meshes with a worm wheel arranged on a steering shaft. The worm wheel is operatively connected to an input shaft of a steering gear mechanism, and the worm shaft and the steering shaft are rotatably mounted in a common gear mechanism housing. The worm shaft has a free end that is remote from the motor and an end that is close to the motor. The end that is remote from the motor is mounted in a rolling bearing, and the end that is close to the motor has a rolling bearing that is received in an eccentric lever.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AGInventors: Johannes Schönlechner, Christian Kohler
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Patent number: 9975374Abstract: A wheel includes a rim having a rim base and a two-part wheel spider. The wheel spider includes two molded parts. The first molded part forms the spokes having an open cross-section and is joined to the second molded part. The spokes of the first molded part are completely or partially closed along the profile length by the second molded part. The wheel spider is preferably integrated in the rim in an interlocking manner. The rim and the two-part wheel spider can consist of metal, but in particular preferably of composite fiber material.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBHInventors: Michael Dressler, Jens Werner, Christian Köhler, André Bartsch, Sandro Mäke
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Patent number: 9907435Abstract: The outdoor multifunction cooking set is composed of an oven mounted pivoting on a barbecue by means of a pivoting articulation. The barbecue includes an ashpit, a hearth and a cooking surface, while the oven includes a cooking bottom composed of refractory stones, and a door on the front face. The chamber of the oven has a double wall that is open at the bottom and is connected to a chimney mounted on the upper part of the oven and in communication with the hearth of the barbecue. This cooking assembly includes at least one temperature maintenance chamber to be mounted, by means of one of its sides, on one hot side of the barbecue. This chamber incorporates a thermometer and an air outlet to be able to allow the hot air contained in it to escape.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: L'ART DU JARDINInventors: Christian Kohler, Kévin Kohler
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Publication number: 20180059633Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to energy management in a building. In one aspect, a method includes providing a plurality of apparatus. Each apparatus of the plurality of apparatus includes a controller, a light, and a heating/cooling device. The controller is in communication with a control system, and the control system controls the electrical system of a building. A power price is received from the control system at a first apparatus of the plurality of apparatus. The power price is compared to a set point power price. Power supplied to at least one of the light of the first apparatus, the heating/cooling device of the first apparatus, a lighting device in a region proximate the first apparatus, and a heating/cooling device in the region proximate the first apparatus is adjusted based on comparing the power price to the set point power price.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Vishal Garg, Niranjan Reddy, Sam Babu Godithi, Richard E. Brown, Christian Kohler, Reshma Singh
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Publication number: 20170307102Abstract: A control device for a process valve unit which includes a valve drive and a valve fitting, wherein the control device has a control unit which is configured to receive a control signal from a superordinate control via a communication interface which is provided in the field level, and to control the valve drive in accordance with the control signal, wherein the control device further has a local bus interface and the control unit is constructed to communicate with one or more devices of the field level via the local bus interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Ulrich Schmidt, Jan Reich, Christian Kohler, Andreas Siebel, Stefan Elmer
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Publication number: 20170282475Abstract: A wheel includes a rim having a rim well and rim flanges, a hub, and at least three spoke elements. Each spoke element forms at least one spoke between the hub and the rim. The spoke elements are fastened to an inside of the rim in a form-closed manner or a form-closed and bonded manner. In the hub region, the spoke elements are supported on each other in a circumferential direction at abutting surfaces designed therefor. A method for producing the wheel is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Jens WERNER, Christian KÖHLER, André BARTSCH, Michael DREßLER, Sandro MÄKE
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Patent number: 9616621Abstract: A one-part wheel which is made of fiber composites without interruption of fibers with excellent mechanical properties and with low weight at the same time as well as a process for the manufacture thereof. The wheel has especially a rim well as well as a wheel disk passing over into a wheel flange of the rim well, where the wheel disk is formed at least partly by fiber layers, which run from the rim well over a wheel flange and the wheel disk. The wheel is manufactured by a multipart mold with parts displaceable at least in the axial direction. The mold is completely removed after the deposition of fibers or remains as a lost core in the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: THYSENNKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBHInventors: Jens Werner, Christian Köhler, André Bartsch, Sandro Mäke, Michael Dreβler, Martin Lepper, Werner Hufenbach
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Patent number: 9616704Abstract: A one-part wheel which is made of fiber composites without interruption of fibers with excellent mechanical properties and with low weight at the same time as well as a process for the manufacture thereof. The wheel has especially a rim well as well as a wheel disk passing over into a wheel flange of the rim well, where the wheel disk is formed at least partly by fiber layers, which run from the rim well over a wheel flange and the wheel disk. The wheel is manufactured by a multipart mold with parts displaceable at least in the axial direction. The mold is completely removed after the deposition of fibers or remains as a lost core in the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBHInventors: Jens Werner, Christian Köhler, André Bartsch, Sandro Mäke, Michael Dreβler, Martin Lepper, Werner Hufenbach
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Patent number: 9586366Abstract: A rim well with integrated flange made of fiber composite as well as to a method for manufacturing same. The flange is formed by inwardly directed protuberances of fiber layers of the rim well, wherein the fiber layers transition to the flange from the rim well without interruption of the fibers. The manufacture is carried out by depositing fiber material on a mold, which corresponds to the contour of the rim well and has a radially circumferential or segmented groove. The fibers are deposited such that the fibers of at least one fiber layer have protuberances directed into the groove. A multipart mold, which makes it possible to reduce the width of the groove and thus a deformation of the protuberances, is preferably used.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBHInventors: Jens Werner, Christian Köhler, André Bartsch, Sandro Mäke, Michael Dreβler, Martin Lepper, Werner Hufenbach
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Publication number: 20170050392Abstract: A one-part wheel which is made of fiber composites without interruption of fibers with excellent mechanical properties and with low weight at the same time as well as a process for the manufacture thereof. The wheel has especially a rim well as well as a wheel disk passing over into a wheel flange of the rim well, where the wheel disk is formed at least partly by fiber layers, which run from the rim well over a wheel flange and the wheel disk. The wheel is manufactured by a multipart mold with parts displaceable at least in the axial direction. The mold is completely removed after the deposition of fibers or remains as a lost core in the wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: Jens WERNER, Christian KÖHLER, André BARTSCH, Sandro MÄKE, Michael DREßLER, Martin LEPPER, Werner HUFENBACH
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Patent number: 9573415Abstract: While specific embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail to illustrate the application of the principles of the invention, it will be understood that the invention may be embodied otherwise without departing from such principles.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBHInventors: Jens Werner, Christian Köhler, André Bartsch, Sandro Mäke, Michael Dreβler, Martin Lepper, Werner Hufenbach
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Patent number: 9555664Abstract: A wheel with a rim as well as a wheel spider, where the wheel spider has a hub and spokes. The wheel includes spokes including one or more linearly stretched textile strands as reinforcement material of a fiber composite and each linearly stretched textile strand runs at least once from the rim to the hub and back without interruption and thus forms at least one spoke. The textile strands are connected in a positive-locking manner and/or in substance with the hub and the rim. A process is provided for the manufacture of the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBHInventors: Jens Werner, Christian Köhler, André Bartsch, Sandro Mäke, Michael Dreβler, Martin Lepper, Werner Hufenbach
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Patent number: 9539855Abstract: A rim well with integrated flange made of fiber composite as well as to a method for manufacturing same. The flange is formed by inwardly directed protuberances of fiber layers of the rim well, wherein the fiber layers transition to the flange from the rim well without interruption of the fibers. The manufacture is carried out by depositing fiber material on a mold, which corresponds to the contour of the rim well and has a radially circumferential or segmented groove. The fibers are deposited such that the fibers of at least one fiber layer have protuberances directed into the groove. A multipart mold, which makes it possible to reduce the width of the groove and thus a deformation of the protuberances, is preferably used.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBHInventors: Jens Werner, Christian Köhler, André Bartsch, Sandro Mäke, Michael Dreβler, Martin Lepper, Werner Hufenbach
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Publication number: 20160332396Abstract: A wheel with a rim as well as a wheel spider, where the wheel spider has a hub and spokes. The wheel includes spokes including one or more linearly stretched textile strands as reinforcement material of a fiber composite and each linearly stretched textile strand runs at least once from the rim to the hub and back without interruption and thus forms at least one spoke. The textile strands are connected in a positive-locking manner and/or in substance with the hub and the rim. A process is provided for the manufacture of the wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Jens WERNER, Christian KÖHLER, André BARTSCH, Sandro MÄKE, Michael DREßLER, Martin LEPPER, Werner HUFENBACH
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Publication number: 20160332391Abstract: A rim well with integrated flange made of fiber composite as well as to a method for manufacturing same. The flange is formed by inwardly directed protuberances of fiber layers of the rim well, wherein the fiber layers transition to the flange from the rim well without interruption of the fibers. The manufacture is carried out by depositing fiber material on a mold, which corresponds to the contour of the rim well and has a radially circumferential or segmented groove. The fibers are deposited such that the fibers of at least one fiber layer have protuberances directed into the groove. A multipart mold, which makes it possible to reduce the width of the groove and thus a deformation of the protuberances, is preferably used.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Jens WERNER, Christian KÖHLER, André BARTSCH, Sandro MÄKE, Michael DREßLER, Martin LEPPER, Werner HUFENBACH
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Publication number: 20160200018Abstract: A mold system for a resin transfer molding process is presented, in which a cavity of a workpiece (1) to be produced is fully enclosed circumferentially by a multi-part shaping mold (2). The shaping mold (2) is enclosed in a sealed manner by an outer, two or more part enveloping mold (7, 8). A method for consolidating a fiber composite component with this mold system and a method for producing a fiber composite component on the basis of the RTM process is provided, in which the intermediate space between a shaping mold (2) and a surrounding enveloping mold (7, 8) is filled with resin during the resin injection. After curing the resin initially remains on the shaping mold (2) as a resin body but is destroyed during the demolding of the workpiece (1), at predetermined breaking points. The demolding of the workpiece (1) from the shaping mold (2) is assisted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Sandro MÄKE, Jens WERNER, André BARTSCH, Michael DRESSLER, Christian KÖHLER
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Publication number: 20160121921Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical servo steering system having an electric servomotor which drives a worm shaft which meshes with a worm wheel arranged on a steering shaft, wherein the worm wheel is operatively connected to an input shaft of a steering gear mechanism, and wherein the worm shaft and the steering shaft are rotatably mounted in a common gear mechanism housing, wherein the worm shaft has a free end which is remote from the motor and an end which is close to the motor, wherein the end which is remote from the motor is mounted in a rolling bearing and the end which is close to the motor has a rolling bearing which is received in an eccentric lever.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AGInventors: Johannes Schönlechner, Christian Kohler
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Patent number: D826443Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBHInventors: Ben Van Berkel, Stephan Pieper, Christian Kohler, Sebastian Schade
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Patent number: D826444Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBHInventors: Ben Van Berkel, Stephan Pieper, Christian Kohler, Sebastian Schade
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Patent number: D827173Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBHInventors: Ben Van Berkel, Stephan Pieper, Christian Kohler, Sebastian Schade